VOL. 10 ISSUE 131• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2017
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20 shot dead in Las Vegas
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ore than 20 people were killed and 100 injured when what appears to be a lone gunman opened �ire from a perch high up in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday night, police said. The “nonstop gun�ire,” according to one witness, sent b y -
MEDICAL CANNABIS. A resident puffs on a marijuana joint inside a house at a subdivision in Sasa, Davao City over the weekend. The Philippine Drug enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently said it has no objection to the proposed bill
standers outside the resort on the Vegas strip ducking for cover and �leeing for their lives. Tourists hid in their hotel rooms and �lights headed into the McCarran International Airport were held elsewhere. Bystanders sprang into action, caring
for the wounded and at least one described someone dying in their arms. Videos �ilmed by onlookers gave a window into the chaos that ensued, with some thinking that �ireworks were going off. The �inal night of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival was taking place across the street from Mandalay Bay when the shooting took place and concertgoers were caught offguard. In the wake of the shooting, the Las Vegas Police Department said the suspected gunman, was believed to be a local, was on 32nd �loor of Mandalay Bay hotel. Police responded to the scene, engaged him and he is now dead. Of�icials said they did not believe there were any more shooters. Authorities were
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for medical marijuana provided that applicable safeguards under the law are strictly followed. Lean Daval Jr.
DECEPTION Collector’s pronouncements not correct: lawyer By ANTONIO M. AJERO
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he pronouncements of acting Davao customs collector Erastus Sandino Austria about the status of a Designated Examination Area (DEA) with P250-million x-ray machine sought to be reopened by the Davao City government “are not correct.” This was the statement of lawyer Manuel Quibod, dean of the Ateneo de Davao University school of law, in reaction to the pronouncements
of Austria about the x-ray machine inside the Aquarius Container Yard owned by businessman Rodolfo Reta of Sasa, Davao City. Quibod is the lead counsel of Reta in his cases against the Bureau of Customs. The BOC and Reta had a contract signed in 2009 on the use of Reta’s container yard as designated examiner area (DEA) wherein a state-of-the-art x-ray machine was installed
to screen cargoes suspected to be smuggled, wrongly declared or suspected to be contraband. Erring collector dismissed Sometime in 2010, then BOC acting Davao collector Anju Nereo Castigador suddenly padlocked the DEA with the x-ray machine alleging that Reta refused to do his functions as container yard operator. Reta denied Casti-
gador’s accusation. He questioned the sudden padlocking, alleging that Castigador had no authority to close the facility and that he did it to hide an attempt to smuggle in thousands of sacks of rice from Thailand worth millions of pesos. As a result of administrative cases, the Ombudsman ordered the dismissal from service of Castigador and also penalized three of his
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